Printz 2005

The Michael L. Printz Award is given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.

For more information visit the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Web page.

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Cover of the book How I live now
By Meg Rosoff.
2005 Printz Winner
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Cover of the book Airborn
By Kenneth Oppel.
2005 Printz Honor
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Cover of the book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy
By by Gary D. Schmidt.
2005 Printz Honor
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.